The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
Labor Notes.

Ramie fibre for yarn is to be made al Pitts
burg.
New England is nearly free from labor
troubles.
Dayton. O., will have fully equipped electric
line by October
Scranton. Pa. will have 300 electric lights in
operation by October
The tanners of the United States will meet
at Saratoga, Sept. z.
81. 100000 electric railway company has
been organized in Detroit
Shoe manufacturers find machine lasting not
so profitable as hand lasting
Alvan Clark the Boston telescope maker, was
originally a calico engraver.
Twenty cars have been ordered to the
seven miles of electric railway in Omaha.
The makers of baseball goods have beef
driven this season to their>utmost capacity.
The coal trade is very dull in West Virginia.
and the miners are eating up their earnings.
The pressed-ware and lamp-chimney factories
of the country will all be running this week.
There is a great and increasing demand for
small houses In Southern manufacturing cities.
It has been estimated by electricians that it
will cost only $l26, 900 per year to light Chicago.
Southern cotton-mls adopting electricity.
and find it cheaper and more servlceaole than
Up to Aug &c only Is. 1853 wage-workers had
struck of whom 2, 600 were Youngstown quarry
men.
Large purchases of coal lands are being made
in Western Pennsylvania despite the natural-gas
craze
Sixty Belrians have inst arrived at the Taren-
tum. Pa, plate glass works. whore there is a
strike
Boiler-makers quite busv all the
country, and machine shop labor is in active
demand.
A New York railroad company will expend
5000, 900 in introducing new system of steam
heating for
American engineers will probably be
called upon to lay out railroad across Central
America to the Pacific
On Sept. 1 the Gas Commissioner of New
York will consider a number of propositions to
light the city electrically.
The coal operators of four Western States
have formed interstate coal association, with
headquarters at st. Louis.
The girls of Louisville are to have a partial
business training, including book keeping. short
hand writing and type writing.
Labor organizers less active than
they have been for months, although new lodges
and associations are constantly sprineing up.
Clothing cutters expect have all the work
they possibly do There very few ap-
prentices coming along to compete for employ
The Pittsburg window-gl manufacturers
will not resume work Sept !, unless the
workmen shall agree to accept the old rate Of
wages
The largest plate-gass works in the world
will soon be erected at Manorvle. thirty miles
east of Pittsburg The sum of $4,000
paid for the site.
The hardware m manufacturers of the Now Eng
land States have had the most successful season
enjoyed. and enlargements are in
progress in every State
In Birmingham. Ala. So 900 worth of
buildings are in course of erection The build
ings are rented before completed. Working
people live cheapiy and comfortably.
While the workingmen of New York and some
other States taking more or less interest in
Labor politics, the political Labor movement in
Pennsylvania.
Printers finding work more
abundant. An equalization OF wages will be
attempted in several localities this fall,
especially in Western cities. Job printers have
a large amount of work in sight.
An American, Hotchkiss, made a world
wide fame guns Another American, Allen
by name. and of New York is out with
process for casting guns of any size up to 500
tons. which are equal to the best forged or built
up" guns
A Chicago man, Bidwell by name, has planned
electric railway to run from the United
States through British America and Alaska to
Behring's strait. crossing bridge into Asia
and thence connecting with the railway system
OF Russia
facturers will result in advance of % per
cent. the electric goods. The average sales
OF light fabrics amount to $3, 0O0.0Oo per year
The ombination imposes penalty of 81, 900 for
violation of rules
Southern papers still calling attention to
the fact that throughout the whole South there
thousands of openings for the establishment
of industries. large and small. The labor unions
might do good service by gathering such in
formation for the benefit of their membership.
iron furnace is to be introduced which
will only one-third much to build as
present furnaces cost. and which will be oper-
ated by one-third much coal. The frs fur
mace in Virginia will be erected at at Rich
mond. The principal iron centers South and
West taking hold of 1t. 1t will Offset the
advantages of natural gas.
Business Embarrassments.